The link between business value creation and ESG
GreenBiz
APRIL 19, 2023
and EcoVadis connects sound ESG management across supply chains with better margins. A new report from Bain & Co.
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Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain
GreenBiz
MARCH 29, 2021
Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain. Many serious concerns have hung over the supply chains of global corporations for decades, ranging from human rights issues to lack of transparency about sourcing and other matters. But what defines an ethical supply chain and what does it look like in practice? .
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Investing in Value Creation Through Regenerative Agriculture
3BL Media
MAY 22, 2024
The food and agriculture industry contributes one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the agricultural supply chain has become increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including changing patterns of drought, precipitation, and extreme heat. A new approach to food production and agriculture is needed.
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A new era for procurement: Value creation across the supply chain
McKinsey Sustainabilty
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The past few years of upheaval have underscored procurement’s importance for generating value. The next few years could make its contributions even more critical.
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Definitive Guide to ESG
GreenBiz
MAY 2, 2022
By proactively addressing impacts of ESG, like climate change, companies can better predict future innovation to avoid supply chain disruption by advancing ways in which materials are sourced and ensuring the global economy drives value creation with ESG elements in mind.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. They can have a profound positive impact across economic, social and environmental value creation.
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Expo City Dubai Joins Forces With EcoVadis To Assess Sustainability Risks and Improve Performance of Its Supply Chain
3BL Media
JANUARY 11, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, & PARIS & NEW YORK, January 11, 2024 /3BL/ - Expo City Dubai, the legacy site of Expo 2020 Dubai and the venue of the recent COP28 climate summit, has partnered with EcoVadis to assess and improve the sustainability performance of its supply chain.
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CECP Reveals Companies With a Defined Purpose Deliver Higher Revenue, Growth, and Returns on Capital
3BL Media
APRIL 22, 2025
And three-quarters (76%) of investors expect companies to define their corporate purpose with 93% believing purpose is essential to long-term business strategy and value creation. Previously, Corporate Purpose: Driving Business Value was called Investing in Society. percentage points between 2020 and 2021, growth slowed to 3.7
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Tracey Campbell Talks Business of Sustainability, Value Creation With Bloomberg TV
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Appearing on Bloomberg TV's "The Close," Tracey Campbell spoke with hosts Alix Steel and Vonnie Quinn about the LYB strategy to create solutions for a better tomorrow and the importance of value creation.
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Carbon Accounting Platform Gravity Raises $13 Million
ESG Today
JANUARY 21, 2025
Founded in 2022, San Francisco-based Gravity provides a software platform aimed at helping industrial businesses and their supply chain partners manage their carbon footprint, providing a carbon accounting and energy management solution built for energy-intensive operations and companies with complex supply chains.
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IWBI Announces Inaugural Social Sustainability Summit in New York
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Organizations that excel in advancing social sustainability promote health, well-being, equity and resilience across their workforce, supply chain, consumers and communities,” said IWBI President and CEO Rachel Hodgdon. Social sustainability equals investment value creation.”
The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy
GreenBiz
MAY 29, 2020
The early stages of the COVID-19 crisis have revealed the brittleness of many global supply chains, not limited to but illustrated by medical equipment availability issues, for example. Supply Chain. Circular Economy. Risk & Resilience. Resilience. Policy & Politics. Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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ESG on the Earnings Call: Nasdaq Data Shows Huge Quarterly Jump in Conversations
3BL Media
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The most popular ESG topics over the quarter were climate transition, sustainability and supply chain management, followed by company culture and human capital management. Nasdaq’s figures include big quarter-on-quarter jumps in conversations around some of the biggest ESG themes. These issues are pretty hard to ignore."
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Electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 17, 2020
We are really looking at value creation from the customer perspective." . But given how much the big food companies are banking on convincing their supply chains to invest in regenerative agriculture, it would be a mistake to overlook the role that electric, autonomous vehicles can play in the field. Innovation.
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Guest Post – Transforming Reporting into Strategy: Navigating Europe’s Omnibus Package
ESG Today
MARCH 19, 2025
Investors continue to require comprehensive ESG data, and supply chain pressures for transparency are only increasing. Connect to value creation – Identify how sustainability initiatives can drive innovation, operational efficiency, and market differentiation.
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ESG Regulatory Impacts to the Middle Market
3BL Media
JANUARY 12, 2024
By Srinand Yalamanchili , Mallory Thomas , Brianna Hardy With the middle market being the bulk of the supply chain, it's important to understand the ESG -- environmental, social and governance -- pressures from public companies that are trickling down and impacting the middle market.
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Beyond emissions: The life of a carbon molecule
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2020
GHG emission data also helps business monitor the effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and it helps investors understand broadly how the systemic risk across their portfolio is distributed among exposure to emitters (Scope 1 emissions), energy users (Scope 2) and companies with significant supply chain or use-phase impacts (Scope 3).
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The 33 sustainability certifications you need to know
GreenBiz
MAY 18, 2021
The organizations that comprise the infamous alphabet soup of reporting frameworks and standards each provide their own approach to the reporting of sustainable value creation and disclosure of climate-related risks, which makes deciding what reporting-related certification to pursue incredibly difficult.
80% of Companies See Sustainability as a Potential Revenue, Profitability Driver: Morgan Stanley Survey
ESG Today
MAY 22, 2024
Sustainability as a value creation opportunity topped the list of “very significant” reasons reported by companies for pursuing sustainability strategies, cited by 50% of respondents, followed closely by compliance with government regulation at 48%, and a moral obligation at 47%.
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Change the World: By Focusing on the Human Impact of the Climate Crisis, Companies Can Turn Risks Into Opportunities
3BL Media
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Only then will companies be able to respond with the innovation and value creation that can, without hyperbole, change the future of the world. When it comes to their own value chain, companies can incentivize and enable their partners (including medium, small, and micro-enterprises) to adopt low carbon processes.
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Global Energy Perspective 2023: Industrial electrification outlook
McKinsey Sustainabilty
JANUARY 16, 2024
Electrification is a critical decarbonization lever, but faces several supply chain challenges that will need to be overcome, representing significant value-creation opportunities.
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CSIRO projection sees 4000 new jobs in HEM sector
Sustainability Matters
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Sovereign capabilities and international partnerships: Exploring international partnerships to preserve domestic value creation. Key strategies include: Aggregated demand: Aligning with adjacent clean energy manufacturing opportunities to facilitate strategic investments and decisions.
Take the Natural Path to Long-term Value
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Asset managers must recognise that degrading ecosystems directly impact markets, supply chains, and long-term returns. As environmental conditions deteriorate, sectors such as agriculture, forestry, and fisheries face growing disruptions, translating into financial losses, operational instability, and declining asset values.
Sustainable Procurement Is the Cornerstone for Business Resilience and Growth
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Co-developed with Accenture , the Barometer reveals procurement’s untapped potential to drive business value through sustainable supply chain programs, and transform into a key agent of an organization’s resilience and growth in a rapidly changing world.
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From discovery to delivery: Finding an investment edge in biopharma services
McKinsey Sustainabilty
JANUARY 29, 2025
Even though the biopharma supply chain is a dynamic and complex part of the pharmaceutical industry, private equity investors can find growth and value creation opportunities. Heres how.
The rise of the chief sustainability officer
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 16, 2024
Fisher’s personal rise from simply tweaking the supply chain to resetting corporate strategy became emblematic of the growth of the CSO position itself – in sheer numbers and in increasing clout. Compliance and risk still play an important role, but we see CSOs increasingly take more responsibility for value creation.”
From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
As Radavicus described: “If you could manage circularity in the rate that you can recover these materials, Europe can create its own local supply chain and can increase its supply of these materials, which usually comes from outside.
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Driving Sustainability With Better Business Spend Management: How Organizations Can Use Coupa and EcoVadis to Reduce Risk and Drive Value
3BL Media
JANUARY 25, 2022
It has also evolved to be a key contributor in value creation and bottom-line return on investment. But to support sustainable procurement processes and optimize decision making with respect to supply chain management, organizations need to bring together the right data from the right sources into one place.
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Mercedes-Benz Pledges to Reduce Emissions from Production by 80% by 2030
ESG Today
MARCH 30, 2023
The new ambition was unveiled as part of a series of ESG-related goals and initiatives announced by the company at its ESG Conference to investors and analysts today, encompassing areas including renewable energy, supply chain decarbonization, circular economy and human rights, among others. ESG enables long-term value creation.
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Effective Corporate Persuasion
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Investors need to make sure that companies know what their sustainability focus is and how they see sustainable value creation, with a clear expectation communicated to the asset manager, said Secrett. Our research showed that collaboration across the supply chain helps firms get hold of the data that they need.
Leaving a Legacy: Preparing for the Future With a Social Impact Strategy
3BL Media
JULY 19, 2024
These challenges can affect economic growth and business value. A failure to address them can limit productivity, constrain consumer spending and growth, destabilize supply chains and trigger political instability. This enhances accountability and builds trust with stakeholders, leading to long-term value creation.
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TCW Acquires Engine No. 1’s Sustainable Transformation-Focused ETF Business
ESG Today
JULY 26, 2023
The firm focuses on creating value by helping companies transform their businesses to be sustainable, and targets companies that can drive long-term value by positioning to benefit from once-in-a generation transformations such as the energy transition and supply chain onshoring. 1, said: “Engine No.
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Clorox Chief Sustainability Officer’s 4 Takeaways From Climate Week 2024
3BL Media
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Discussions with organizations across a wide spectrum of sectors highlighted that ESG reporting goes beyond traditional financial reporting by incorporating critical elements like cost avoidance, risk mitigation and long-term value creation. There’s cautious optimism for AI opportunities in climate.
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Invenergy, BW Offshore partner in bid for 5.4 GW wind project offshore Scotland
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
. “Together, we represent a unique blend of expertise and ambition to deliver the next phase of energy transition in Scotland, bringing substantial international project development experience and a strong track record for local value creation,” said BW Offshore CEO Marco Beenen.
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The Simplicity of Social Sustainability: A Driving Force for People, Doing Business
3BL Media
DECEMBER 5, 2024
From a profit-focused perspective, this emphasis makes sense as people are what give any company value: employees, customers, communities, supply chains and investors are all composed of people. Real estate companies first focused on occupant experience, then community engagement and now, increasingly, supply chain impacts.
85% of Companies Increased Sustainability Investments Over Past Year, as Execs Expect Direct Business Benefits: Deloitte Survey
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Material benefits such as supply chain efficiency and resilience and operating margins ranked within the top 5 benefits already being experienced by companies as a result of their sustainability efforts, compared with less tangible benefits such as brand recognition and reputation reported in the prior year survey.
Wesco International’s Annual Sustainability Report Now Available; Sets 2030 Goals for Landfill Waste, Green House Gas Emissions and Safety
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Wesco International (NYSE: WCC), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, issued its annual Sustainability Report. SOURCE: 3BL Alerts. In 2016 Wesco created five specific environmental goals, most of which were met at the end of 2021.
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Plugging Into the Battery Economy
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
More than half a century later, the automobile is once again reshaping established supply chains and creating a new industrial order—only this one is built on the high-density lithium-ion batteries that power Electric Vehicles (EVs). Subsequently, value creation shifts to the infrastructure and device makers with higher penetration.
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The link between business value creation and ESG
Environmental News Bits
MAY 23, 2023
and EcoVadis connects sound ESG management across supply chains with better margins. Read the full story at GreenBiz. A new report from Bain & Co.
Athian and Elanco Animal Health Team Up to Transform Food Production through Methane Reduction
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
2 Creating an inset market model that works with recognized supply chain partners makes it easier for farmers to measure and implement rigorous verifications, will help break these barriers to entry and accelerate progress. “As This is a game changer for value creation throughout the food chain, and it’s just the start.
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Launch of Human Rights and Child Labour Indices for Battery Passport
3BL Media
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Child labour and human rights violations are a critical and growing issue in the battery supply chain, particularly as demand for batteries continues to increase to achieve the green transition. We must keep the people across our entire value chain top of mind. Everyone must take part in the value creation.
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World Environment Day Spotlight: Gildan Leaders on What Sustainability Means to Them
3BL Media
JUNE 5, 2024
She also chairs the Long-term Value Creation area of focus and is responsible for pushing Gildan’s goal of contributing to value-driven community projects in the regions where we operate. “I Having seen the Company’s ESG efforts grow and evolve, Claudia now oversees ESG under Peter Iliopoulos’s leadership.
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Sustainable Brands e-Commerce Platform Flora Raises $9 Million
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Flora’s platform uses proprietary technology and algorithms to identify sustainable brands and evaluate their operational and financial performance, sustainability impact, and value creation opportunities.
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Is TCFD a catalyst for transformational climate adaptation?
GreenBiz
MARCH 24, 2021
Corporations need to explore the social and broader contextual, market, employee, customer and supply-chain environmental/physical climate risks, and the adaptation actions they are implementing or could undertake as well, if they are to truly consider the interests of all of their stakeholders.
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